Project

Grading Breakdown

Component

Due Date

% Project Grade

Proposal

9/29

15%

Informal Progress Updates

Throughout

10%

(Partial) Annotated Reference List

11/3

20%

Final Presentation

12/13-15

20%

Final Report

12/16

35%

Proposal Guidelines

The proposal for this project is very important, as it provides me
with an understanding of what you hope to accomplish, and how you plan
to accomplish it. To this end, the proposal should have the following
structure:

Section 1: Introduction. The introduction section of
your proposal should provide sufficient background to motivate your
work. Furthermore, it should define the type of project that
you plan to carry out. For instance, do you plan to write a survey
paper that systematizes knowlege of a particular area of
security/privacy research? Do you plan to pose a research question
that can be addressed by a combination of literature study and
proof-of-concept prototyping? Use this section to
explain why your proposed plan is important and what
you hope to learn by conducting this project. After reading your
introduction, I should have a clear idea of what problem you are
addressing, and what the intellectual merit of your proposed
research is.

Section 2: Research Plan. This section should define at
a more technical level the tasks that need to be done as part of
your project. Each task should be numbered and described in
detail.

Section 3: Proposed Timeline. This section of your
proposal should describe the time required to conduct each of the
tasks outlined in Section 2. Furthermore, approximate completion
dates should be listed for each deliverable identified in Section
3.

In total, I expect that your proposal will be approximately 3-5 pages
in length. However, this is just a guideline, and you will not be
penalized for writing a more detailed proposal. Overall clarity of
presentation is much more important than page limits!